It’s not appropriate to a love story, or – there are a million stories you could think of that don’t need 3D. A lot of movies don’t even need color! Douglas Trumbull Read Quote
I’m developing some high-frame-rate 3-D processes that are going to be, I hope, indistiguishable from reality. This will be quite an unusual cinematic event – you don’t just tell an ordinary story, it’s more of a first-person experience where the melodrama doesn’t get in the way. Being inside the movie rather than looking at the movie. Douglas Trumbull Read Quote
I’d rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes. Douglas Trumbull Read Quote
I like the unknown. That’s what Terry Malick has always really liked. He’s always looking for the unexpected. Douglas Trumbull Read Quote
2001′ used a lot of what’s called ‘front projection.’ You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole ‘dawn of man’ sequence in ‘2001’ was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah. Douglas Trumbull Read Quote
If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different. Douglas Trumbull Read Quote
I’d formed a research and development company under the banner of Paramount Pictures back in about 1975, and its mandate was to explore advanced forms of entertainment, not just movies. Douglas Trumbull Read Quote
When I worked on 2001 – which was my first feature film – I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience. Douglas Trumbull Read Quote
